Schlagwort: right to choose
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Clare Wilkins: New attacks on abortion
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 30-31] Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, by Janet Hadley. Virago, 1990. Reviewed by Clare Wilkins Anti-abortion MPs are planning another attack on the provisions of the 1967 Abortion Act and the present 24-week time limit on abortion. This follows a summer of intense media interest in aspects of…
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Elaine Brunskill: Abortion rights: 30 years on
[Socialism Today, No 23, November 1997, p. 8-9] The decriminalisation of abortion, which took place thirty years ago this month, was an enormous step forward for women. The 1967 Abortion Act was the first in a series of reforms such as the equal pay and sex discrimination legislation. These gains were made by women who…
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Christine Thomas: A blow to the right to choose
[Socialism Today, No 3, November 1995, p. 8] ‘New wave’ US feminist Naomi Wolf has defected to the anti-abortionists’ camp. Although she says that abortion should be legal and is sometimes necessary, she has launched a vitriolic attack on pro-choice supporters. In an article in the US magazine New Republic she condemns those campaigning for…